Laura Moser

Moser was born in Houston, Texas.^[2] Her grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany.^[3] She attended St. John's School and graduated from Amherst College in 1999.^[4] She later worked in publishing at the Harvill Press in London before becoming a freelance journalist.^[4] Moser is Jewish.^[5]

Moser published her first book, an "efficient, compact" biography of the actress Bette Davis, in 2005.^[6] With her friend Lauren Mechling, she co-authored a series of young adult novels about the experiences of a girl who moves from Houston to Brooklyn.^[7]

Moser has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and The Jewish Daily Forward. She was the education columnist at Slate.^[8]

After the 2016 United States presidential election, Moser founded the organization Daily Action.^[9] In 2017, she moved back to Texas's 7th congressional district to run for Congress in 2018.^[10]

In February 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), citing concerns about Moser's electability in the general election, called attention to her past controversial statements.^[11] That DCCC action was condemned by DNC chair Tom Perez^[12] and Our Revolution, which endorsed Moser a few days later, on March 1, 2018.^[13]

In the March 6 Democratic primary, in a seven-candidate field, Moser earned 24.3% of the vote to Lizzie Fletcher's 29.3%.^[14]

In the May 22 runoff, Fletcher defeated Moser, 68% to 32%, becoming the Democratic nominee in the general election.^[15]

In the November 6 general election, Fletcher defeated incumbent representative John Culberson by five percentage points (52.5% to 47.5%).^[16]

Moser is married to Arun Chaudhary, who was President Barack Obama's White House videographer.^[17] Her brother is writer and translator Benjamin Moser. She has two children.^[18] In April 2020, she and her family moved to Berlin, Germany.^[19]